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Grantee Roundup: December 2021

It’s always fun to hear about new grants as they’re awarded, but what happens after the announcement? In this series, we’ll check in on a couple of projects that are well underway - or already at the finish line. Read on to learn about some recent mile...

31 Jan 2022

Finalized no. 33

tl;dr Merge progress -- minor spec updates, engineering full steam ahead 🚂 No progress in client diversity. Be selfish, run a minority client!...

31 Jan 2022

The great renaming: what happened to Eth2?

Ethereum is a protocol undergoing significant changes. Client teams are upgrading the protocol to scale to meet global demand while improving security and decentralization. Beyond protocol development, a critical shift in Ethereum has been the movement...

24 Jan 2022

Best Place to Buy Ethereum

What is Ethereum? Ethereum is a community-built technology behind the cryptocurrency ether (ETH) and supports thousands of blockchain applications. Ethereum is one of the world’s largest programmable blockchains and the...
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20 Jan 2022

Best Place to Buy Litecoin

What is Litecoin? Litecoin is a cryptocurrency that was established in 2011. Litecoin’s primary purpose is to be a more user-friendly version of Bitcoin. Litecoin transactions are said to be...
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20 Jan 2022

Announcing the KZG Ceremony

High fees have made life difficult for travelers through these Dark Forests. The Pools of Mem once clouded, now clarified by the filter of 1559, reveal that they are not deep enough to sustain. Legends tell of a society flourishing under the abundance...

16 Jan 2022

PKT Cash – Development Update Nov/Dec 2021

This update will cover PKT technology development progress through November & December 2021. PKT is an open-source project. All of the PKT blockchain code and the various projects being developed...
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31 Dec 2021

SafePKT, a toolbox to verify rust-based smart contracts

In the SafePKT project, funded by the 3rd round of the NGI LEDGER program, our team focused on improving software development efficiency (and therefore time to market) for software used within the PKT...
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23 Dec 2021

EF-Supported Teams: Research & Development Roundup

We all have a lot to be thankful for this holiday season, from the first birthday of the beacon chain, to the successful upgrades over the past year and the incredible progress across the entire Ethereum ecosystem. As a highly productive year draws to...

22 Dec 2021

Announcing the Kintsugi Merge Testnet

Since returning from the Amphora merge workshop, client teams have been hard at work implementing the latest versions of merge specifications and testing them on devnets. After four ephemeral devnets, Kintsugi 🍵, a longer-lived public testnet, is now ...

20 Dec 2021

An update on Devcon 6, and something new…

It’s been a little while, and we’ve got some news....

13 Dec 2021

Announcing the Client Incentive Program

Note: this post was updated on April 4, 2022 to include a full copy of the Client Incentive Program details. A diverse set of clients is key to the Ethereum network's health and decentralization. Diversity ensures that innovation continues at the base...

13 Dec 2021

Spotlight on Kenya: Microinsurance for Every Farmer

In Sub-Saharan Africa, only 3% of 48 million smallholder farmers are insured. Owning 1 acre of land and earning approximately $1.40 per person per day characterize a smallholder farmer. Smallholder farmers often own a mixture of cash crops and subsiste...

7 Dec 2021

Verkle tree structure

A Verkle tree is a commitment scheme that works similar to a Merkle tree, but has much smaller witnesses. It works by replacing the hashes in a Merkle tree with a vector commitment, which makes wider branching factors more efficient. Thanks to Kevaund...

2 Dec 2021

How The Merge Impacts Ethereum’s Application Layer

Ethereum's transition to proof of stake -- The Merge -- is near: devnets are being stood up, specifications are being finalized and community outreach has begun in earnest. The Merge is designed to have minimal impact on how Ethereum operates for end u...

29 Nov 2021

Update on the partnership between EF and UNICEF

Since 2019, we have supported UNICEF’s CryptoFund with recurring contributions, and we are excited about our most recent donation too. Today, I would like to share the story of our journey together, to recognize some of the achievements of our partners...

24 Nov 2021

Finalized no. 32

tl;dr Kintsugi🍵 in progress -- testnet to come Stakers must upgrade for Arrow Glacier...

22 Nov 2021

Announcing Grants for Advocacy Non-Profits

The Ethereum Foundation is allocating 1 million USD in grant funding to organizations that educate governments and policymakers about Ethereum and blockchain technology. We encourage others in the Ethereum community to support their important work....

16 Nov 2021

Arrow Glacier Upgrade Announcement

The Ethereum network will be undergoing a scheduled upgrade at block number 13,773,000, which is predicted to occur on Wednesday, December 8, 2021. The exact date is subject to change due to variable block times and timezones. Please upgrade your node ...

10 Nov 2021

Allocation Update: Q2 2021

It's that time again - our Q2 grantee lineup is coming right up. But before we get to that: ESP is hiring a Team Lead! We're looking for someone organized, innovative, and passionate about Ethereum. If you think you might be the right person to lead a...

4 Nov 2021

Announcing Devcon Archive V2

Devcon is coming in 2022 (along with something new 🤫), but ahead of our next event updates, we invite you to check out a completely refreshed Devcon archive....

3 Nov 2021

Finalized no. 31

This issue of Finalized is dedicated to the contextualization of a recently published paper describing three possible attacks on Ethereum's proof-of-stake algorithm. tl;dr These are serious attacks with a formally-analyzed, technically-simple mitigati...

2 Nov 2021

PKT Cash – Development Update Sept/Oct 2021

This development update will encompass September & October 2021 and goes into detail on the various PKT technology projects. PKT is an open-source project. All of the PKT blockchain code...
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31 Oct 2021

Grantee Roundup: September 2021

It’s always fun to hear about new grants as they’re awarded, but what happens after the announcement? In this series, we’ll check in on a couple of projects that are well underway - or already at the finish line. Read on to learn about some recent mile...

22 Oct 2021

Finalized no. 30

tl;dr Altair is fast approaching. Upgrade your nodes! Now!...

19 Oct 2021

Amphora: A Major Merge Milestone

Earlier this year, the Rayonism hackathon kicked off to protoype the architecture for Ethereum's transition to proof of stake. The transition, often refered to as The Merge, will keep the existing beacon chain (eth2) and execution layer (eth1) clients,...

15 Oct 2021

Best Place to Buy Chainlink

What Is Chainlink? Chainlink is a cryptocurrency that connects outside data from oracles to blockchain smart contracts. This way anyone can access truthful real-world data. Chainlink technology enables blockchains to...
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7 Oct 2021

Altair Mainnet Announcement

The Altair beacon chain upgrade is ready to be activated on the Ethereum mainnet. The upgrade will go live at epoch 74240 (Oct 27, 2021, 10:56:23am UTC)....

5 Oct 2021

Ethereum.org Translation Program: Milestones and Updates

The ethereum.org Translation Program has been live for over two years, and we are excited to share a couple of milestones we have hit since its inception, as well as some of our plans for the future. Since we launched the initiative in 2019, over 2,00...

4 Oct 2021

Finalized no. 29

Altair is here; the Merge is coming. tl;dr Altair upgrade epoch set, mainnet client releases in progress 👀 Merge interop spec released. Devnets to follow 🏺...

28 Sep 2021